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Sweden intends to expel up to 80,000 asylum-seekers whose applications have been rejected, the country's interior minister has announced.

Anders Ygeman said that charter aircraft would be used to deport the migrants over several years.

Some 163,000 migrants and refugees applied for asylum in Sweden in 2015, the highest per capita number in Europe.

Of the approximately 58,800 cases processed last year, 55% were accepted.

Sweden earlier this week became the latest of a number of European nations to see tensions over migrants heightened by violence.

A 15-year-old asylum seeker was arrested in Molndal, near Gothenburg after a 22-year-old asylum centre employee was stabbed to death.

Migration officials say 35,400 unaccompanied minors sought asylum in Sweden in 2015, five times the number in 2014.The national migration agency has described the surge in arrivals from unaccompanied minors as a "great challenge for all municipalities in the country".Along with Germany, the country is a prime destination for refugees and other migrants entering the EU illegally. It recently introduced temporary border checks in a bid to control the influx of people.

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Sweden intends to expel up to 80,000 asylum-seekers whose applications have been rejected, the country's interior minister has announced.

Anders Ygeman said that charter aircraft would be used to deport the migrants over several years.

Some 163,000 migrants and refugees applied for asylum in Sweden in 2015, the highest per capita number in Europe.

Of the approximately 58,800 cases processed last year, 55% were accepted.

Sweden earlier this week became the latest of a number of European nations to see tensions over migrants heightened by violence.

A 15-year-old asylum seeker was arrested in Molndal, near Gothenburg after a 22-year-old asylum centre employee was stabbed to death.

Migration officials say 35,400 unaccompanied minors sought asylum in Sweden in 2015, five times the number in 2014.The national migration agency has described the surge in arrivals from unaccompanied minors as a "great challenge for all municipalities in the country".Along with Germany, the country is a prime destination for refugees and other migrants entering the EU illegally. It recently introduced temporary border checks in a bid to control the influx of people.